Why no DAP calls to probe delayed Penang project, Najib says

 

Part of the Bukit Kukus bypass road in Penang – touted as the highest elevated route in the country – was opened in January.

PETALING JAYA: Former prime minister Najib Razak has questioned why DAP had not demanded for a probe into the delay in the completion of a bypass road in Penang.

Najib said that the Bukit Kukus bypass road – touted to be the highest elevated route in the country – was scheduled to be completed in 2017, some four years after the project was announced.

However, only part of the road was opened earlier this year, while the project is expected to be completed in 2025, which meant the project has been delayed for eight years.

“But it is weird that DAP does not call for a Public Accounts Committee investigation into the delays of projects under them,” he said in a Facebook post.

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The Pekan MP went on to compare the bypass road project with the current criticisms of the navy’s littoral combat ship (LCS) project.

Najib said while the delivery of the ships were indeed delayed, it had not been shelved, as the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government did.

The current government had resumed the LCS project only in May. “Yet PH is asking where the ships are?”

Part of the Bukit Kukus bypass road was opened to traffic in January. It is part of the Paya Terubong Paired Road, which spans 5.5km.

The Penang Island City Council built a 3.3km stretch, while the remaining 1.4km and 800m stretches are being built by developers PLB Land Sdn Bhd and Geo Valley Sdn Bhd, respectively. - FMT